Shadows follow me into my dreaming mind. My love, with his face ever beaming is turned in my dreams to a skeletal curse, His spirit slagged as hot metal looks. The sunlight glows black streaked with red And falls like cold ash, covering my bed. Chasing me, haunting me the shadows prey on my subconscious, driving me away From the comfort of day, the world of light. Deep into darkness, their world is the night. Struggling, racing, like swimming through tar I pull myself up and see from afar Light in the tunnel, but in fear I quake, For I realize, I'll never fully wake